It looks like Brett Marston has pretty much quit blogging, and though it doesn't bring me the joy that I felt when I heard that Milton Bradley had discontinued Stratego, I do feel a certain relief -- for him.
He's too nice a guy to join in the current slugfest, yet he's too honest to go the Kristoff "It's not nice to call Bush a liar even if he is one!" route. Besides, anyone would get weary of constantly debating dissemblers like Chafetz.
Actually, he mentions his circumstances have changed which explains his absence. I sincerely wish him the best.
In one of the rare recent posts, however, he mentions that he still reads Defective Yeti, an admittedly well-written blog with possibly the greatest logo/photo in the history of the blogsphere.
But I don't read it anymore. Its author is political -- though Marston is right to say that politics is not the thrust of the blog -- and what's more, to my mind his politics are excellent (progessive independent).
Which makes the Jonah Goldberg-love that much more mysterious.
But anyway, I'm not an apparatchik; I quit reading the Yeti because it's so bobo, and I don't mean politically. The author is much more talented and much much less ..well, retarded than Lileks, but I still see bleating as the blog's ultimate future: domesticity, suburbanism ..boring. Not that it's bad, it's just not interesting to me.
But then I originally read the Yeti for the movie reviews.
So long, Brett; and you too, albino Chewbacca.
posted by RETARDO MONTALBAN @ 10:56 AM
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